“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar wilde
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jcboy
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Wed 30 Jan, 2013 05:23 am
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There's a thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the biggest idiot on earth."~ Cynthia Heimel
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edgarblythe
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Wed 30 Jan, 2013 05:24 am
“Purity in body and heart
May please some--as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household
Has all of his utensils made of gold;
Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
AndTHIS would ostensibly stop terrorist attacks on the United States???
Terrorist attacks on the US would stop, as Noam Chomsky says, if the US stopped engaging in terrorism.
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
--Noam Chomsky
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Lustig Andrei
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Wed 30 Jan, 2013 03:37 pm
"Hatred is never anything but fear -- if you feared no one, you'd hate no one."
Hugh Downs
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edgarblythe
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Wed 30 Jan, 2013 06:02 pm
“Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.”
― Lewis Carroll
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jcboy
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Thu 31 Jan, 2013 04:26 am
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."~ Lao Tzu
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edgarblythe
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Thu 31 Jan, 2013 05:23 am
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus
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George
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Thu 31 Jan, 2013 05:43 am
@edgarblythe,
"My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure."
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
- Aristotle
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edgarblythe
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Thu 31 Jan, 2013 08:07 pm
Goodreads has Humphrey Bogart as the author of Caine Mutiny.
"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.”
― Humphrey Bogart
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edgarblythe
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Fri 1 Feb, 2013 05:23 am
As a sailor, I sometimes had similar thoughts:
“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.”
― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
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jcboy
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Fri 1 Feb, 2013 06:41 am
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. "
Albert Einstein
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blueveinedthrobber
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Fri 1 Feb, 2013 09:26 am
"Some people are like Slinkys..they serve no function but they're a lot of fun to watch fall down the stairs"
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edgarblythe
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Fri 1 Feb, 2013 08:55 pm
“Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.”
―W. C. Fields
